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This is a list of prepared dishes characteristic ofEnglish cuisine. English cuisine encompasses the cooking styles, traditions and recipes associated withEngland. It has distinctive attributes of its own, but also shares much with widerBritish cuisine, partly through the importation of ingredients and ideas fromNorth America,China, and theIndian subcontinent during the time of theBritish Empire and as a result ofpost-warimmigration.[1][2]
Ingredients that might be used to prepare these dishes, such as English vegetables, cuts of meat, or cheeses do not themselves form part of this list.
Note that many UK entries to cuisine before UK even got introduced to a potato, around 1570 earliest are to be taken as to be researched.
| Name | Image | First known | Savoury/ Sweet | Region of origin | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bedfordshire clanger | 19th century[3] | Savoury and sweet | Bedfordshire | Suet crust dumpling with a savoury filling one end, sweet filling the other. The savoury filling is usually meat with diced potatoes and vegetables. The sweet filling can be jam, cooked apple or other fruit. | ||
| Bangers and mash | 410 at latest (Roman Britain: sausages)[4][5] | Savoury | National[6] | Mashed potatoes and sausages, sometimes served with onion gravy or fried onions. Note that while sausages may date to the time given, potatoes are from the Americas and were not introduced to Europe until the 16th century. | ||
| Beans on toast | Savoury | National | Tinnedbaked beans, heated, on toasted sliced bread. | |||
| Cobbler | 19th century, perhaps earlier[7] | Savoury or Sweet | National | Fruit or savoury (e.g. beef) filling, covered with ascone mixture and baked | ||
| Beef Wellington | 1939[8][9] | Savoury | National | Beef cooked in a pastry crust | ||
| Black peas | Savoury | Lancashire | Purple podded peas soaked overnight and simmered until mushy | |||
| Black (blood) pudding | 800BC (inThe Odyssey)[10] | Savoury | National[a] | Blood sausage | ||
| Bubble and squeak | Savoury | National[6] | Fried mashed potato with cabbage; often made from leftovers | |||
| Cauliflower cheese | Savoury | National | Cauliflower in a thick cheese sauce | |||
| China chilo | Victorian Era[11] | Savoury | Stewed with onions, peas and lettuce, mutton is served in a dish surrounded by a border of rice. | |||
| Cottage pie, Shepherd's pie | 1791[12] | Savoury | National | Meat, minced or in pieces, with mashed potato crust | ||
| Cumberland sausage | Savoury | Cumberland | Long sausage | |||
| Deviled Egg | 16th century | Savoury | National | |||
| Devilled kidneys | Savoury | National[13][14] | Lamb’s kidneys cooked in a spiced sauce. | |||
| Faggots | 1851[15] | Savoury | Midlands | Meatballs made from minced off-cuts and offal, especially pork (traditionally pig's heart, liver, and fatty belly meat or bacon) together with herbs for flavouring and sometimes added bread crumbs. | ||
| Fish and chips | 1870 approx.[16] | Savoury | National[6][17] | White fish fillets inbatter (or egg-and-breadcrumbs), deep fried with thick cut chips of potato. | ||
| Full English breakfast | 1861[b][18] | Savoury | National | A selection of fried foods such as sausages, bacon, eggs, mushrooms, bread, tomatoes; options include kippers, baked beans | ||
| Game pie | Savoury | National | Hot water crust pastry filled with savoury combinations ofrabbit,venison,pigeon, pheasant, and other commercially available game. | |||
| Groaty pudding | 1805[19] | Savoury | Black Country | Soakedgroats, beef,leeks, onion andbeef stock which are baked together at a moderate temperature for up to 16 hours. | ||
| Hog's pudding | Savoury | Devon, Cornwall | ||||
| Hot cross bun | 1361 | Sweet | Hertfordshire | |||
| Jellied eels | Savoury | East End of London | ||||
| Kippers | Savoury | National | Smoked split herrings | |||
| Lancashire hotpot | Savoury | Lancashire | Meat stew with carrots, potatoes, onions | |||
| Lincolnshire sausage | Savoury | Lincolnshire | ||||
| Liver and onion/Liver and bacon | Savoury | National | Pictured is liver and onions | |||
| Macaroni cheese | Savoury | |||||
| Panackelty | Savoury | Sunderland | Slow-baked meat and root vegetables | |||
| Parmo | Savoury | Middlesbrough | Chicken or othercutlet in breadcrumbs | |||
| Pasty | 13th century[20] | Savoury | Cornwall, National | Pastry shell filled with meat and potatoes | ||
| Pease pudding | Savoury | North East | Split peas or lentils cooked until soft and thick | |||
| Pie and mash | Savoury | East-End, | National | |||
| Ploughman's lunch | 1950s | Savoury | National | Typical British lunch consisting of bread (normally buttered), cheese, onion, and sometimespickle. | ||
| Pork pie | 1780s[21][22] | Savoury | Melton Mowbray, National | Cylindrical pie filled with pork and meat jelly | ||
| Potted shrimps | 19th century or earlier[23] | Savoury | Lancashire (Morecambe Bay) | Shrimps preserved under melted butter | ||
| Rag pudding | Savoury | Lancashire (Oldham) | Minced meat with onions in a suet pastry, which is then boiled or steamed. | |||
| Scouse | 1706[24] | Savoury | Liverpool and other seaports, from Northern Europe | Lamb or beef stew with potatoes, carrots and onions, cf Norwegianlobscouse | ||
| Scotch Egg | Savoury | National | A boiled egg which is wrapped in sausage, then breadcrumbs and deep fried | |||
| Stargazy pie | 20th century | Savoury | Cornwall | Fish pie with sardines poking out of the piecrust, looking at the stars | ||
| Steak pie | 1303[25] | Savoury | National | Beef and gravy in a pastry shell. Can also include ingredients such as ale, kidney, oysters, potato and root vegetables | ||
| Steak and kidney pie | Savoury | National[6] | Beef, kidneys and gravy in a pastry shell. | |||
| Steak and kidney pudding | 1861[26] | Savoury | National | Suet pudding filled with pieces of beef and kidney in thick gravy | ||
| Steak and oyster pie, See Steak pies | ||||||
| Stottie cake | Savoury | North East England | Heavy flat bread | |||
| Suet pudding | 1714[27][28] | Savoury or sweet | National | Steamed pudding made with flour and suet, with meat or fruit mixed in | ||
| Sunday roast | 18th century | Savoury | National | Roast beef 1700s,[29]Yorkshire pudding (1747),[30] roastpotatoes, vegetables. Roast beef with Yorkshire pudding is a national dish of the United Kingdom.[6] | ||
| Roast lamb withmint sauce | Savoury | National | ||||
| Roastpork withapple sauce | Savoury | National | ||||
| Shepherd's pie, see Cottage pie | ||||||
| Toad-in-the-hole | 1747;[31] 1788[32] 1891[33] | Savoury | National[6] | Sausages cooked in a tray ofbatter | ||
| Welsh rarebit | Savoury | National | Melted cheese on toast | |||
| Yorkshire pudding | 1747[30] | Savoury | Yorkshire, National | Souffle batter baked in very hot oven. | ||
| Apple pie | 1390[34] | Sweet | National[c] | A pie crust, whether all round or only on top, with a filling of sweetened apple | ||
| Arctic roll | Sweet | National | ||||
| Bakewell tart | 20th century[35] | Sweet | Derbyshire | Pastry shell filled with almond-flavoured sponge cake on a thin layer of jam. Developed from 1826Bakewell pudding[36] | ||
| Banoffee pie | Sweet | Hungry Monk Restaurant, East Sussex | Pastry shell filled with bananas, cream and toffee | |||
| Battenberg cake | Sweet | National | ||||
| Bread and butter pudding | Sweet | National | ||||
| Butterscotch tart | Sweet | National | ||||
| Christmas pudding | Sweet | National | ||||
| Eccles cake | 1793[37] | Sweet | Greater Manchester | Flaky pastry with butter and currants | ||
| Eton mess | 19th century[38] | Sweet | Berkshire (Eton College) | |||
| Eve's pudding | Sweet | National | ||||
| Fool | Sweet | National | ||||
| Gypsy tart | Sweet | Kent[39] | ||||
| Cornish Hevva Cake | Sweet | Cornwall | ||||
| Jam roly-poly | Sweet | National | ||||
| Jam tart | Sweet | National | ||||
| Knickerbocker glory | 1920s[40] | Sweet | National; possibly from New York[40] | Ice cream sundae in a tall glass, often with nuts, fruits, meringue, and chocolate sauce; served with whipped cream and aglacé cherry | ||
| Lardy cake | Sweet | Wiltshire | ||||
| Madeira cake | Sweet | National | ||||
| Mince pie | 1624 | Sweet | National | Usually small pastry shells filled with sweetmincemeat; sinceEarly Modern times actual meat omitted | ||
| Parkin | Sweet | Yorkshire | ||||
| Pound cake | Sweet | National | ||||
| Queen of Puddings | Sweet | National | ||||
| Saffron cake | Sweet | Cornwall | ||||
| Scones | Sweet | National | Small bread-like cakes often with raisins | |||
| Spotted dick | 19th century[41] | Sweet | National | Pudding with suet pastry and dried vine fruits, usually served withcustard | ||
| Sticky toffee pudding | Sweet | National | ||||
| Summer pudding | Sweet | National | ||||
| Sussex pond pudding | Sweet | |||||
| Syllabub | Sweet | National | Cold dessert made with cream, alcohol and sugar, often withcitrus flavouring | |||
| Trifle | Sweet | National | Cold dessert with varied ingredients, often sponge fingers and fortified wine, jelly, custard, and whipped cream, usually in layers | |||
| Treacle tart | Sweet | National | Pastry shell filled with thick sweettreacle mixture | |||
| Victoria sponge cake | Sweet | National |
It is estimated that there are around 400 sausage varieties available in the UK.
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